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“The Mishnah teaches us that for two reasons Adam was created alone. Firstly, to teach us the value of the individual, that whosoever destroys a single soul, destroys a complete world. And whosoever preserves a single soul, has preserved an entire world. Each man is a world, you see. He influences the people around him every day and is in turn influenced by them, and when he is lost, it is an apocalypse.”

'...and make sure those goddamned balls are shaved; we can’t rightly shove a pair of hairy balls in everybody’s faces. So he’s fucking this mechabitch, okay? Halfway through let’s have the protagonist fracture into 144 versions of himself that continue to buttfuck the robot or whatever.'

'He pressed his thumb against the dab of ice-cream on the corner of my face I left there on purpose, just like I knew he would. I grabbed his wrist. “I’m Bev,” I said, and licked the ice-cream off his thumb.'

I have yet to meet a girl who is this forthcoming with dairy products.

“I know only what you have told me about Nazis, and all that I know of Jews I have observed over the ages. You are an insular people, much given over to elevating yourselves, or at least insuring none of you fall to hardship. Such solidarity is admirable, in a people. But what of the rest of humanity? You forbid each other from usury, but you have no qualms about practicing it against those not of your creed.'

“But, hey, look,” Linda said. “You can say crackers! all day long if you want. That’s what’s so good about pretending. Anything you want to be okay is okay. You know what I mean?”